Dominant Carbury retain senior status

Allenwood Eoin Bagnall dips low to try and avoid the challenge from Dean Cummins Carbury | Iconic

placeholder image — Allenwood Eoin Bagnall dips low to try and avoid the challenge from Dean Cummins Carbury | Iconic

Allenwood have a lot to do now to avoid being relegated to intermediate

Carbury retained their Joe Mallon Motors SFC status at Manguard Park, Hawkfield, this evening following a comfortable win over a very disappointing Allenwood side by ten points.

Carbury opened the scoring with a Tommy Gill point quickly followed by an Eoin Cully point, set up by Aaron O’Neill as Carbury dominated the early stages.

After eight minutes Eoghan Bagnall opened his and Allenwood's account with a free and Aaron Dunne quickly added a point.

However Carbury took control around the middle and a long ball in by Eoin Boyle saw Conor Denehan find the net, Ben Kearney added a point and when Eoin Cully added two more, the second a free, Carbury now led 1-6 to 0-3 after 22 minutes.

Things were looking good for Carbury but Allenwood finished the half strong with Eoin Bagnall (2 frees), , a lovely effort from Johnny Byrne and then just before the break a breech by Carbury saw Eoin Bagnall bring the ball outside the arc before firing it over to leave the half-time score reading Carbury 1-6 Allenwood 0-8.

On the resumption Carbury took complete control with Tommy Gill getting a quick point while Eoin Cully, set up by Aaron O'Neill, filled the Allenwood net to lead 2-9 to 0-8.

Carbury dominated and added three points while Carbury scored just a single second half point, a free from Eoin Bagnall, as Carbury won on a final score line of Carbury 2-13 Allenwood 0-9.

Scorers, Carbury: Eoin Cully 1-7 (5 frees), Conor Denehan 1-0, Tommy Gill 0-3, Ben Kearney 0-2, Oisin Milmoe 0-1,

Allenwood: Eoin Bagnall 0-7 (2 two-pointer frees, 3 frees), Aaron Dunne 0-1, Johnny Byrne 0-1,

CARBURY: Declan Conroy; Dean Cummins, Willy Groome, Brian Minmoe; Tommy Gill, Oisin Milmoe, Paul Fleming; Conor Denehan, Mark Cully; Evan Boyle, Eoin Cully, Ben Kearney; Conor Gallagherl, Aaron O’Neill, Jack Smyth. Subs: James Carey for Aaron O’Neill (52 minutes); JP Gill for Oisin Milmoe (56 minutes); Brain O’Flaherty for Conor Gallagher (59 minutes); Jack Cully for Conor Denehan (62 minutes); Justin Reilly for Jack Smyth (62 minutes).

ALLENWOOD: Stephen Carey; Mark Delaney, Sean Moran, Ronan Guilfoyle; Gavin Malone, Darragh Malone cpt., Jamie Gartland; John Dee, Alex Lenehan; Brendan Hanafey, Sean Dunne; Aaron Dunne, Johnny Byrne, Callum O’Reilly. Subs: Rory Moran for Alex Lenehan (24 minutes); Joey Cunningham for Sean Dunne (41 minutes); Eric Judge for Aaron Dunne (49 minutes); Mark Byrne for Clllum O’Reilly (56 minutes);

REFEREE: Kieran Harris.